But before telling you about this let me sort of Go through some of the hypothesis that we have and That we are now testing about why the subject is Difficult and why these materials assembled what We have assembled them might be useful.

但是谈那之前我要说说,我们之前的一些假设,我们现在正在测试为什么这个学科很难,以及为什么我们整合这些资料是有用的,我们认为把它们整合起来或许有用。

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Now this sounds like a draconian measure; let me tell you why.

这个听起来很像苛政;,让我告诉你原因。

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When President Levin or Barry Nalebuff who is now walking to the back of the room, when my boss comes along and asks me why did you do that?

当校长列文或者巴里·纳莱巴夫来找我,他们二位就坐在教室后面呢,当他们问我为什么这么选时

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Now, one of the reasons why people would-- it's unthinkable for someone like me or for probably most of you to imagine giving up your rights to a kind of absolute rule, though we seem to be in a situation like that, where that's happened quite a lot recently, even in this own country.

我或者你们中绝大多数的人,很难想象会有这么多人,宁愿放弃自己的权利,而屈从于一种绝对王权的原因,尽管在我们国家,最近类似的事情层出不穷,让我们仿佛能够感同身受

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